MIT Astronomers Discover Mysterious “Black Widow” Binary System - SciTechDaily

The system, which may have originated near the center of the Milky Way, is orbited by a third stellar companion. The flashing of a nearby star has drawn MIT astronomers to a new and mysterious system 3,000 light-years from Earth. The strange stellar oddity ap…

BySciTechDailyMay 4, 2022 Animation depicting a black widow pulsar and its small stellar companion. Credit: NASAs Goddard Space Flight Center/Cruz deWilde The system, which may have originated near… [+9763 chars]

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